Trump Argues With CNN’s Acosta at Heated News Conference
- ‘You are a rude, terrible person,’ Trump tells reporter
- Calls PBS reporter’s question about nationalism ‘racist’
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President Donald Trump engaged in one of his most direct confrontations with a reporter, arguing with CNN’s Jim Acosta at a news conference on Tuesday and calling him rude.
Trump invited Acosta, a frequent foil, to ask him a question at the White House news conference, which followed his party’s loss of control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s midterm elections.